Chapter 207: Ordinary

Laying down Changshi Pass is indeed a fairly effective measure to correct the security situation around Yunzhou, and in the case that Xiling is unable to take the initiative, but in the various affairs of Yunzhou that Ye Tao, Tan Weixin and Dai Yun are discussing, it has a different meaning to take Changshi Pass into their hands. After all, now the Yunzhou Economic Strategy Mansion is not only in charge of Yunzhou's affairs, but also at least a large part of the business of Xiling Kingdom: the Thunder Yin Demon Sect.

With the smooth development of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect in Xiling, as the Thunder Yin Demon Sect began to become a nominally important branch of the Daoming Sect, but because of the strong and steady development momentum, the Daoming Sect became more and more vigilant, and the support for the Thunder Yin Demon Sect was no longer limited to money and some craftsmen, or more metaphysically, the content of the correspondence between the high-level priests of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect led by Ye Tao and Lei Huang about doctrinal interpretation and organizational development, and now the support has shifted to more practical content: personnel, weapons and training. Unlike when Zhuo Xianchen was asked to sneak into Xiling with three thousand elite forbidden troops at one time, this kind of support was more carried out by small-scale and multi-batch transportation and dispatch, in this case, in order to protect that secret passage, it was particularly important to establish another or even several parallel passages. And in this case, the passage on the side of the current Bauhinia Pass, which has gathered quite a lot of troops and has been closely watched by Xiling, seems to be very inappropriate.

As an economic envoy with strong professional ability in engineering construction, it is natural that Changshi Pass, which has very problems in defense capability, will not be simply captured. In fact, after getting the sketch of Changshi Pass, Ye Tao already had a basic blueprint for reconstruction and construction in his mind, and he had already drawn it on several drawings, and when he really took Changshi Pass, with specific exploration data, he could complete the detailed design and construction. At that time, Changshi Pass will not be the same as it is now, but will truly become a reliable military fortress. There will also be enough space for the hoarding of military supplies and enough space for large-scale logistical work...... Ye Tao, who already had a lot of experience in the design of fortresses and military towns, decided almost from the beginning that he wanted to make Changshi Pass an important part of the future attack on Xiling. And Changshi Pass will also be the first in a series of Yunzhou infrastructure projects presided over by Ye Tao. As for the most important city project, Ye Tao didn't even know if there was a suitable geographical location to build this city, nor did he know how big and advanced the city would be, and how many years of development would be left enough space, even if this kind of space would seem plain now.

The assault on Changshi Pass appears to be progressing extremely well. A few days after the military meeting, a test of the smoke agent of the Blood Qi Army was secretly conducted outside Suiyuan City. It turned out that the kind of thing that I didn't know which trickster in the Blood Qi Army made it was really useful, and Feng Hao's spoof spirit flipped up slightly, and he added some ingredients to the smoke agent. The fumigating agent not only has a smoky effect, but also has a part of the narcotic hallucinogenic effect. The operation of making such a fume-generating agent in large quantities and setting it off directly in front of Changshi Pass on a very large scale became the first practical case of "biological and chemical weapons" in this era. And the effect was surprisingly good, in the entire attack, Yu Fuzhong led more than 3,000 soldiers, in the end only 19 were injured, none of them died. Four of them were still too excited when they faced the Xiling Sergeant Land who had stumbled out of the Changshi Pass. So much so that he tore off the wet sweat towel that was a little obstructive in front of his mouth and nose, and was smoked down by his own smoke.

Pomegranate An got the opportunity to send her younger brother to the Blood Qi Army, and after hesitating, she decided to become the first battalion leader of the Chinese military battalion, and from scratch she formed this army with only about 1,000 people but concentrated dozens of professionals with incomparably complex personnel. Yu Fuzhong is not too aggressive. But his solid military skills and good reputation among the rank-and-file soldiers led him to be unexpectedly appointed commander of eight garrison camps. And the trust he gained even exceeded this position, Yu Fuzhong not only took charge of the formation and training of the eight garrison battalions, but even handed over the management of the reconstruction of Changshi Pass and the management of materials of Changshi Pass to him. Because from now on, he will secretly transfer part of his military funds to the people of the Lei Yin Demon Sect according to the instructions of the Jingluo Mansion.

As for Xiling, although he was extremely angry after losing Changshi Pass, Jiang Xujing of the Zhenbei Military Division couldn't draw enough strength to fight back at this time. This defeat, with very low human losses and very little property losses, hides the information that Yunzhou and Dongping do not want to start a full-scale war yet, and Jiang Xujing understands it very clearly. Jiang Xujing didn't know that the more he waited, the easier it would be for Dongping to sit big, but the chaos in Xiling and the north not only involved the military strength in his hands, but also made him unable to organize enough military resources to guarantee the attack of the operation. In such a situation. He could only write and report truthfully, but he did not give any clear instructions other than ordering the defenders near Changshi Pass to be more vigilant.

With the official end of the military conference, the Changshi Pass was in the hands to ensure that there would be no sudden war in the four borders of Yunzhou, and various strategies for the development of Yunzhou began to gradually enter the implementation stage.

For the vast number of people in Yunzhou, the most obvious thing is the changes in the yamen in various places. Do you want to set up special judicial law enforcement agencies in various places? It's not easy to do that in this day and age. In this era, local affairs were still fairly simple, with official positions such as the appointment of county lieutenants. Dealing with lawsuits is the heaviest business. Tax collection and local infrastructure construction can only be regarded as a trivial matter. Ye Tao felt that in such a situation, it was really unrealistic to deprive the local government of judicial power. It was a waste of manpower and material resources to set up a new agency to deal with it, but he still made some adjustments. For example, he issued a document clarifying the principle of "non-torture" in all cases, making the "presumption of innocence" possible at the operational level. The other is the establishment of a hearing system for village elders. The villagers cannot influence the outcome of the trial, but if there is any doubt and once they cannot unanimously agree with the verdict of the county governor, they can submit the case to a higher level. Death sentences for a series of serious criminal offenses, such as homicide, robbery, and rape, must be reviewed by the judicial department under the government before they can be executed. This measure has indeed reduced the efficiency of local judicial enforcement, but it has also avoided a lot of false judgments caused by the prejudice of the county lieutenant, and has also produced a clear result: good magistrates and bad magistrates, magistrates who are good at handling cases and magistrates who are clumsy in such matters have been quickly separated, and Yunzhou has made a talent reserve for completely separating such affairs from local governments in the near future. For the common people, although they can't influence the opinions of the county magistrate, they can watch the whole process, which is already a great progress. Moreover, Ye Tao did not announce that the observers would be isolated, which subtly formed the interaction between public opinion and judicial enforcement, and I have to say that in this simple era, public opinion is really quite reliable.

Several important departments under the Yunzhou Economic Strategy Mansion have also begun to gradually improve their own structures and gradually play a role. Whether it is the General Headquarters, the Manufacturing Bureau, the Commerce and Trade Bureau, the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, or many small departments directly under the Economic Strategy Bureau, they all need a large number of talents, and they need a large number of officials with relevant experience or civilian talents, and it is really not easy to establish a complete set of teams. Recruiting talent is nothing more than getting people to recommend, recruiting local talents, and sending people to find these paths. What Ye Tao needs is a large number of people who can do things, not a few "very talented" staff, and those so-called talents who need to be personally invited by Lord Jinglu have all been ignored by him. Ye Tao's statement is also very simple: if you don't do it, you can't do it without you and not Yunzhou.

At the same time as the establishment of the institution, the visual identity image of several major departments in Yunzhou has also been introduced. Yunzhou Jinglufu simply used the logo that Ye Tao designed when he was promoting Yunzhou, and began to gradually deploy this set of visual identity signs from the Jinglue Mansion in Ningyuan City as the center. The signs of the major departments under the Jinglu Mansion are much cuter in comparison. The logo of the Yunzhou Manufacturing Bureau is half a gear exposed to the clouds, and the Commerce and Trade Bureau is half a copper coin exposed to the clouds, as for the logo of the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, it is a little more Q version, it is a sheep's head resting on the clouds, and the sheep's little face even has a happy smile. Such a mark is indeed not powerful enough, but it makes people feel that this is life.

In fact, the shape of the core white cloud has not changed in the slightest, which is the core mark of Yunzhou, but through different attachments, this cloud is given different functions. The logo of the headquarters is different, the other signs show specific objects under the support of the clouds, while the logo of the Yunzhou headquarters is a shield to cover the clouds behind the shield, which fully shows the primary responsibility of the headquarters to manage the Yunzhou army and maintain the stability and harmony of Yunzhou.

Such a set of visual identity marks is undoubtedly the first deployment of a government-level visual identity in this era, and these concise but profound meanings, even with a faint sense of humor, have naturally become classics in the field of design.